Unsupervised home exercise is just as effective as a supervised program, Australian researchers have discovered, writing that “both weekly, supervised, outpatient-based exercise plus unsupervised home exercise and standard care of unsupervised home exercise successfully maintained 6-minute walk distance and quality of life in subjects with moderate COPD.”
Investigators recruited 59 patients with moderate COPD who had completed an 8-week pulmonary rehabilitation program, assigning them to weekly, supervised exercise once a week in conjunction with unsupervised home exercise on 4 other days.
At the 12-month follow-up, 6-minute walk test distance had fallen by a nonsignificant 11 m and scores on the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) had worsened by a nonsignificant 3 points.
SOURCE:Respiratory Report
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